CA: Mendocino Pass Road, California

[pderocco]

There are several roads in the National Park category that aren't in National Parks, but are still significant routes. For instance, Montezuma Canyon Road (AZ MonCanRd), Minaret Summit Road (CA MinSumRd), and Mormon Emigrant Trail (CA MorEmiTr) are mostly National Forest roads, and the first one is graded dirt. Another road that really should be included is the road that connects the two parts of CA-162 over Mendocino Pass. It's a well-graded dirt road in a National Forest that even the Google Street View car has gone over. Google shows the road in both Maps and Earth as a regular road, and the state uses Covelo as a control city for CA-162 in the Central Valley.

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[Duke87]

Importantly though, the roads you listed do all serve a NPS facility and this is a basic requirement for inclusion in the National Park Highways system even as maintenance by NPS is not.

Montezuma Canyon Road is the main road to and through Coronado National Memorial. Minaret Summit Road is the road to Devils Postpile National Monument. And the Mormon Emigrant Trail is, um... hey yeah, why is that in there given no NPS facility is involved?

[neroute2]

Previous discussions about forest service routes in usanp:
https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4067.0
https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=65.msg16033#msg16033
https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4059.0

[cl94]

Mormon Emigrant Trail is there because it is part of the unofficial Alternate US 50. That was added when Alt 50 was removed for being unofficial.

[oscar]

I drove MPR to connect between the two segments of CA 162. It is a good connection, but not particularly scenic. I'm not crazy about adding forest roads to usanp just for connectivity.